"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and……" — James Madison
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
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James Madison
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461 Quotes by James Madison
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism,…
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The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is…
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish…
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
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War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in…
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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